SA-CERN Science Day

Tuesday 25 Nov 2008, 10:00 → 17:00 Africa/Johannesburg

10:00 → 10:10 Welcome and Introduction

10:15 → 10:45 The ALICE dHLT: what can we do for physics in ALICE

Speaker: Dr. B Becker

Slides SACERNLaunch-dHLT.pdf

10:45 → 11:15 Physics at the Large Hadron Collider with the ATLAS Experiment

Speaker: Prof S Connell

11:15 → 11:45 ALICE: A status report and South Africa's involvement

Speaker: Dr. S. Foertsch

Slides SVF.ppt

11:45 → 12:15 Cavern Background Simulations in the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer

Speaker: Ms. C Lee

Slides claire.cavern.25nov2008.pdf

12:15 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 14:00 The study of W+/- at LHC energies

Speaker: Dr Zinhle Buthelezi (iThemba LABS)

Slides ZB_SACERN_Nov2008.ppt

14:00 → 14:30 Near-thermal equilibrium with Tsalis distributions in heavy ion collisions

Speaker: Prof J Cleymans

14:30 → 14:50 Online monitoring for dHLT

Speaker: Mr S. Mohlalisi

Slides Seforo_Mohlalisi.ppt

14:50 → 15:20 The South African National Grid, What it is and what it means for SA-CERN

Speaker: Dr. B. Becker

Slides SACERNLaunch-SAgrid.pdf

15:20 → 16:00 Tea

16:00 → 17:00 Collaboration meeting